For many Facebook users, the last person they would give their Facebook username and password to is their boss.
But Robert Collins, 29, said that in a background investigation for a position with the Maryland Department of Corrections, that was exactly what he was required to do.
"Here I am a U.S. citizen that hasn't broken any laws, committed any crimes," said Collins in a YouTube video, taped by the ACLU, "and a prospective, or in my case, an employer, looking at my personal communications, my personal posts, my personal pictures."
The corrections officer said he was told this was a department policy.
A spokesperson for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services said that's not correct.
"We don't require anyone to give us a password," the department told NBC4. "The ACLU drastically misrepresented this."
1 comment:
how long before we are stopped on the street and asked for out 'papers'?
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